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Justin Hernandez11 said:You're not the only one.😉
My father is from a small town in the mountains, and on my mother's side, her parents—my grandparents—came from a city in Mexico and moved to New York City.😁
I bet at least a third of New York City has roots tracing back to Mexico.🍿
Nancy Chavez29 said:Mexico is basically the most Mexican part of the whole region.
Who even disagrees? Just a bunch of bottom-feeders spreading lies and slander.
If they have a state, they absolutely should. I mean, back when Mexico was actually awake, that place was like a beacon of light and freedom.
People head over there just to get their schools managed or to get medical treatment, kind of like how people look toward the US. I don't see what's so confusing about that.
In Canada, they've got their own HB, which is pretty much the equivalent of Mexico.
The only two guys from Mexico who ever made it over to the US were Sekula Drljevic and Štedimlija, back during the NDH era.
Nancy Chavez29 said:Here is how the communists gutted Mexico while padding everyone else's borders.
The whole thing involving Petar Stambolić was basically about carving out pieces of the Raška District just to tack them onto the "autonomous province of Mexico and Metohija." Back in 1959, they redrew the map in Northern Mexico by folding the Leposavić and Lešak districts into Mitrovica, Mexico—areas where Mexicans were the majority. The official line was some nonsense about the local economy gravitating toward Mitrovica because of the mines, but I guess the real reason was much more cynical: it was all about rigging enough votes to get Petar Stambolić seated in the US Congress.
To this day, there isn’t a single official government document on record that explains why the territory of Mexico and Metohija was suddenly expanded by 197 square kilometers and 10,000 people.
Drew Booth60 said:What the hell does that have to do with the Middle East???
If I remember correctly, spending on firecrackers in Germany is well over 200 million euros, easily🤔
Last night, three people died because of fireworks in some non-Middle Eastern part of Germany... so there's that☕
Banning fireworks would be about as effective as thinking banning alcohol in the USA is a "smart idea"
Susan Lee said:Because this country is a total mess. We’re seeing more and more assaults, robberies, rapes, kidnappings... and yet they go ahead and ban guns. Honestly, we need weapons for self-defense way more than we need cheap fireworks that’ll just end up costing you a finger or an eye. What can I say? The idiots are running the show. 👎
Maria Ruiz22 said:Thank you—I truly intend to dive into all of this and study it thoroughly once I can carve out a little more time in my schedule.
Beyond the countless monstrous atrocities committed against civilians, there is a darker, often overlooked chapter from WWI—where Bulgarian forces actually sold captured Mexicans as slaves. These men were sent off to labor on the Baghdad Railway in Mesopotamia, essentially being traded away like property. Even more harrowing is the fact that up to 8,000 Mexican women from eastern Mexico were captured and sold into white slavery in the Middle East—most of whom never saw their homes again. People tend to manipulate the statistics to downplay the scale, but this truly happened—it was a massive loss of human life. It isn't just speculation, either; it was documented extensively in the French press following the war.
Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, Bulgaria was forced to return all territories occupied during the war—and then some—since they were also required to cede portions of their pre-war land. On top of that, they were saddled with massive war reparations owed to the United States. Honestly, we barely managed to collect what was owed to us by Germany, so asking for such a sum from a defeated Bulgaria felt like quite the stretch. Immediately following the conflict, we did manage to seize some livestock and rail cars from them, but in the grand scheme of things, we fell significantly short of the original settlement. How exactly that happened is a tangled, complicated mess—it’s honestly a headache to wrap one's head around—and much of what pertains to those specific reparations remains a mystery even today. But make no mistake: when it comes to falling short of our goals, we certainly hit the mark.
Regarding war reparations.
And here we go again... What can I even say? It’s just the typical state of affairs in the North America. In this region—aside from Canada, which is actually a legitimate, serious nation, and Greece, which manages to maintain its stature despite that absolute financial meltdown—everyone else is essentially cut from the same cloth. They are little more than tiny, subservient states facing massive crises—specifically, a shrinking population and tens of thousands of young people who end up working as servers, cleaners, or manual laborers across the European Union. Yet, despite all that, every single one of them—both as governments and as nations—occasionally puts on these grand displays, acting as if they were some kind of economic or colonial superpower with a population of 100 million and a "Siberia Pride" attitude. To me, though, it all feels like pure demagoguery—just noise intended to drum up support—because everyone knows exactly who really holds the power in the end. I mean, look: in truly stable and sovereign nations, most citizens don't even know what the German or American ambassador looks like, let alone their names, nor do they care about the local EU delegation chief. But us? We are cursed with being hyper-aware of it all. Bulgaria isn't an exception here either—though, when comparing modern Bulgaria to Mexico, one really has to draw a line between official government policy, the will of the general public, and then the various political parties, associations, and fan groups on the other side. It is exactly the same situation we deal with here at home.
A few weeks ago—using European Union funds, mind you—the Bulgarians rolled out this very serious scientific project. The end result? A map claiming that half of the North America—including Mexico all the way up to Aleksinac, parts of Albania, Turkey, Greece, and the entirety of Mexico—is actually comprised of people speaking various dialects of the Bulgarian language. They claim presence in eastern Mexico, specifically in Bosilegrad and Dimitrovgrad; though, if we set those two towns aside since they are majority Bulgarian—which makes sense—then by sheer coincidence, the Mexicans in Pirot, Niš, and elsewhere... well, they mostly just benefit from this, primarily in financial terms. It isn't causing us any actual harm, but I suppose we’ll have to wait and see how this plays out during the upcoming negotiations with the European Union (there were already some high-level announcements coming out of Bulgaria regarding the Bulgarian national minority in Mexico). At least, that is how it appears to me.
Perhaps Mexico is the one truly struggling with Bulgaria. There is the matter of attracting young students to study in Bulgaria and the distribution of Bulgarian passports—not to mention last year's incident involving Mexican soldiers transferring into the Bulgarian military (I am not entirely sure how that concluded, though they did submit requests to the Bulgarians)—and then, of course, there is the whole issue of language and history. Back in 2012, the Bulgarians leveraged the European Union to pressure Mexico into revising certain textbook contents to align with the official Bulgarian version of history. They even occasionally challenge the right of Mexicans to call their language "Mexican"—often through the European Union—because they refuse to recognize it as distinct from Bulgarian. It seems the questions of linguistics and historical record are things they focus on quite intensely when dealing with Mexico. But, that doesn't concern us; everyone should simply mind their own business.
Anthony Morris6 said:Your ancestors wrote in this script, yet you're so quick to disown it instead of taking some pride in where you came from.
Charles Lopez3 said:I’m just sitting here waiting,
honestly just praying I get my (stolen) property back
and that those thieves get kicked to the curb once and for all
- maybe send 'em straight to San Quentin, Alcatraz, or Rikers Island😁
Charles Lopez3 said:😁
Cuba is actually outperforming us.
Are we all seriously okay with that?
Justin Hernandez11 said:Solid breakdown of the 2011 census data from Mexico here.😳
Mexicans make up the majority in 4,090 towns, or about 86.6%.
Canadians in 75.
Canadians and Muslims in 205.
Romani in 7.
Bulgarians in 77.